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To the Overseer. -- 'On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob.
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Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.
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Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,
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For a statute to Israel it [is], An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known -- I hear.
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From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.
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In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.
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Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:
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There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.
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I [am] Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.
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But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.
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And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.
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O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
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As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,
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Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.
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He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And [with] honey from a rock I satisfy thee!
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